Dr. Shondel Nero

Dr. Shondel Nero
Associate Professor
The School of Education
Sullivan Hall, Room 409
(718) 990-1620
neros@stjohns.edu

Office Hours
M-W: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Dr. Shondel Nero, Associate Professor in the Masters Program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), joined the faculty in September 1998. She is currently Assistant Chair in the Department of Human Services and Counseling in The School of Education.

Her teaching and research interests are: English as a Second Language (ESL), Standard English as a Second Dialect (SESD), linguistics, sociolinguistics, language and identity, and Caribbean Creole English.

Dr. Nero began her teaching career as a high school ESL and French teacher in a New York City public school (1990-1991). She later became Assistant Professor of English at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, where she taught composition to nonnative speakers of English, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics and sociolinguistics (1991-1998).

At St. John’s, she serves on several departmental, school-level, and university wide committees, including the Multicultural Advisory Committee, the Committee on Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the Interdepartmental Linguistics Committee.

Dr. Nero has been an active member of the TESOL Association since 1988, and has presented numerous papers at the association’s annual convention. She serves on the editorial board of TESOL Quarterly, the flagship journal of the association. She is past chair of the International Black Professionals and Friends in TESOL (IBPFT) Caucus within the association.

Education
1997: Ed.D., Applied Linguistics. Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY.

1994: Ed.M., Applied Linguistics. Columbia University, Teachers College.

1990: M.A., Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Columbia University, Teachers College.

1984: B.A. (distinction) French and Spanish. Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.

Selected Publications
Books
Nero, S. (Ed.). (2006). Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Nero, S. (2001). Englishes in contact: Anglophone Caribbean students in an urban college. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Refereed journal articles
Nero, S. (2006). Language, identity, and education of Caribbean English speakers. World Englishes 25 (3/4), 501-511.

Nero, S. (2005b). Englishes in contact: Dialects, power, and the burden of being understood. TESOL in Context 15 (1), 3 – 8.
 
Nero, S. (2005a). Language, identities, and ESL pedagogy. Language and Education 19, (3), 194 - 211.

Nero, S. (2002). Englishes, attitudes, education. English Today 18 (1), 53 – 56.

Nero, S. (2000). The changing faces of English: A Caribbean perspective. TESOL Quarterly 34 (3), 483 - 510.

Nero, S. (1997b). ESL or ESD? Teaching English to Caribbean English speakers. TESOL Journal 7 (2), 6 - 10.

Nero, S. (1997a). English is my native language....or so I believe. TESOL Quarterly 31 (3), 585 - 593.
 
Chapters in edited books
Nero, S.  (2006). An exceptional voice: Working as a TESOL professional of color. In A. Curtis & M. Romney (Eds.), Color, race, and English language teaching: Shades of meaning (pp 23-36.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Nero, S. (2002). Coping in school: Language and academic performance of Indo-Caribbean students in New York City. In A. Camacho-Gingerich (Ed.), Coping in America: The case of Caribbean East Indians (pp. 141-148). New York: GEICA.

Section in a book
Nero, S. (1998). Some notes on Caribbean English. In L. Parascandola (Ed.), Winds can wake up the dead: An Eric Walrond reader (pp. 44 - 48). Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP.

Courses Taught
EDU 9002: Psychology and Sociology of Language and Bilingualism
EDU 9004/9009: Content Area Instruction for Linguistically/Culturally Diverse Learners
EDU 9005: TESOL Theory and Practice
EDU 9010/9710: Linguistics for Teachers of English and Exceptional Learners
EDU 9012: Methods of Language and Academic Assessment for ELL and Exceptional Learners
EDU 9013: Research in Language, Culture, and Communication
EDU 9014: Practicum and Seminar in TESOL
EDU 9015: Structure of the English Language
EDU 9017: Methods of Literacy Development for Dialect and Other English Speakers
EDU 7900: Qualitative Research Methods